A medical worker adjusts a bedside monitor in the intensive care unit in the «red zone» of the infectious disease wardMOSCOW, 24 Jan. Coronavirus infection affects different human organs. In an interview with Sputnik radio, Candidate of Medical Sciences, chief physician of the K + 31 clinic network Boris Churadze spoke about a rare but dangerous complication of COVID-19. Doctors are faced with a variety of manifestations of a coronavirus infection that can affect almost any body system, he noted . Most often, the lungs of patients are affected, but there are other complications.
"It's unpredictable. For someone it can be thrombosis with fatal thromboembolic complications, for someone it can be severe myocarditis or viral hepatitis, and for someone it is possible peritonitis — inflammation of the abdominal cavity", Churadze specified.
COVID-19 is rarely accompanied by serous peritonitis, but such cases do happen. According to the doctor, inflammation in the abdominal cavity caused by coronavirus infection may be associated with the immune functions of some of its organs. .) are the organs that are responsible for the immune response. In the case when the immune response becomes pathological, incorrect as a result of a coronavirus infection, the abdominal cavity may turn out to be a zone where complications form,» said Churadze. A sign of this complication atypical for COVID-19 serves as an «acute abdomen» — a complex of symptoms, the appearance of which is necessary to urgently seek medical help, the doctor added. this pathology,” Boris Churadze explained in an interview with Sputnik radio. Vaccination is an effective way avoid severe complications from COVID-19 and reduce the risk of infection with this disease.